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Kwame Johnson and Juliet Udeochu Full Interview · The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: My next guest represent the organization that provides children facing
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  Speaker 1: adversity with strong and endearing, professionally supported, one to one
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  Speaker 1: mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.
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  Speaker 1: Nearly half a million children in Metro Atlanta live in
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  Speaker 1: communities with low well being. That's very important. Did I
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  Speaker 1: say that their vital mission is to recruit volunteers to
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  Speaker 1: become mentors to children facing adversity? Please work on the
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  Speaker 1: money making conversation. The president and CEO of Big Brother,
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  Speaker 1: Big Sister Foundation and volunteer Recruitment manager of Greater Loss
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  Speaker 1: and of Greater Atlanta, Kwamie Johnson and Juliet Yeah names
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  Speaker 1: you look at that. She mouthed the name. I need
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  Speaker 1: the help on the phone she would have been no help.
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  Speaker 1: But welcome to my studio. First of all, how are
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  Speaker 1: you doing, Kwamie? Oh man, I'm great man, It's Monday.
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  Speaker 1: I'm blessed to be here. We appreciate you giving us
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  Speaker 1: this opportunity to come in. Cool and Juliet, you have
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  Speaker 1: a Nigerian heritage? Yes, yes, Um, first generation nine Jaring
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  Speaker 1: American crazy story born in America. Um. Four days later,
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  Speaker 1: my parents moved back to Nigeria crazy almost killed me,
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  Speaker 1: but thank god I'm still here. And then I moved
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  Speaker 1: back to America when I was four years Absolutely, that's
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  Speaker 1: that's great. Now. The initial question is I gotta ask you, comic,
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  Speaker 1: what is big Brother Big Sister? So Big Brothers Big
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  Speaker 1: Sisters a Metro Atlanta is an amazing organization that is
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  Speaker 1: really helping young people reach their full potential through one
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  Speaker 1: to one mentoring relationships. So we match young people in
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  Speaker 1: need all across the metropolitan with what we call big
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  Speaker 1: Brothers and big sisters. And these are men and women
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  Speaker 1: who have taken challenge to really help a young person
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  Speaker 1: through building a relationship. Uh. We you know have great
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  Speaker 1: results of you know, kids going to next grade level, uh,
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  Speaker 1: graduating high school, avoiding the criminal justice system. And it's
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  Speaker 1: really through that personal one on one relationship. And that's
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  Speaker 1: our sweet sauce, not only here in Atlanta, but across
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  Speaker 1: the country through all of our big Brothers big sisters
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  Speaker 1: were big brother to slide over to a big sister.
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  Speaker 1: The uh, the the important role of young females because
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  Speaker 1: you know, we have a lot of things going on
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  Speaker 1: out there. We have you know, slave trading going on there.
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  Speaker 1: So young females can get caught up into that. We
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  Speaker 1: have a street prostitution, young females get caught up in
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  Speaker 1: that pregnancy. Young females can get caught up into that.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to me about that role of the big sister
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  Speaker 1: and volunteer, the importance of volunteers stepping into young females, Like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying that young men aren't affected like that,
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  Speaker 1: but there are a lot of more physical barriers that
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  Speaker 1: the female can get abused in. And uh and we
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  Speaker 1: don't recognize that admit that publicly. Yeah, well I could
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  Speaker 1: speak first hand. And being a former little sister, I'm
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  Speaker 1: still if you want to technically call me a little sister,
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  Speaker 1: because I've been matched with my big since I was
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  Speaker 1: seven years old and we still have a strong relationship now.
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  Speaker 1: Um So I know firsthand of why this organization is
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  Speaker 1: so great. Unlike a lot of the kids that we served,
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  Speaker 1: I came from an amazing family mom dad, It was
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  Speaker 1: just five of us. I was the middle child and
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  Speaker 1: I was a little crazy se um. So my big
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  Speaker 1: sister was there to just stare me in the right direction.
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  Speaker 1: Like I said earlier, Being first generation Nigerian parents were
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  Speaker 1: really strict and I think my way of not listening
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  Speaker 1: to them to be very rebellious and certain areas that
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  Speaker 1: we we lived in, I started to go down the
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  Speaker 1: wrong path. And it was so amazing to have my
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  Speaker 1: big sister, Emilita Johnson, Hey Emilita, who was there too
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  Speaker 1: to teach me and have those conversations that I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: have with my mom or my aunt's because they were
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  Speaker 1: so strict. Um. So I always tell ladies that, yes,
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  Speaker 1: we do talk about the boys a lot because we
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  Speaker 1: have that need for male mentors, but um, our young girls,
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  Speaker 1: our little girls, they needed as well with social media
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  Speaker 1: and self esteem. Do I want to look like Harley
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  Speaker 1: be Do I want to look like Nicki Minaj? And this?
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  Speaker 1: All these different things right this, These kids are strong
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  Speaker 1: now because social media. I'm so happy I didn't have it,
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  Speaker 1: um when I was their age. But having that person
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  Speaker 1: to tell you that you don't have to look like
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  Speaker 1: that or dressed like that to get any attention or
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  Speaker 1: to be special. So um, it's it's just important for
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  Speaker 1: our ladies as well to step up to be mentors. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you know the reasons your shows about entrepreneurship, sure, why
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  Speaker 1: is why is bringing a big brother big Sister organization
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  Speaker 1: on the show because it's about mentoring. This is just
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  Speaker 1: people successful males and females who in the entrepreneur world,
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  Speaker 1: academic world, career, career, uh, success in the careers and
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  Speaker 1: employers and employees. This is the part of the game
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  Speaker 1: that I always say, the balanced life, the giving back.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I have you two on the show to
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  Speaker 1: talk about Big Brother, Big Sister and any other organization
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  Speaker 1: that leverages their relationship to empower our youth to be
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  Speaker 1: better citizens in this country through academics, through just lifestyle
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  Speaker 1: and personal well being. So what is when used to
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  Speaker 1: your role, your overall role, what disappoints you and which
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  Speaker 1: excites you about how people come to the Big Brother,
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  Speaker 1: Big Sister Foundation. Yeah, so you know, you know, my
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  Speaker 1: my role, I think is to be an example to
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  Speaker 1: young people that whatever you want to achieve in life
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  Speaker 1: is possible. Outside of my role as the CEO of
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  Speaker 1: Big Brothers Big Sisters. I've been in that life, had
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  Speaker 1: challenges of my own and and I'm happy to be
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  Speaker 1: here because you know, it could have went the wrong
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  Speaker 1: way and I wouldn't be here. But you know what,
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  Speaker 1: what is you know always on my mind about Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: is just the challenges that kids in poverty face in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: If you're born in poverty in Atlanta, you have a
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  Speaker 1: four percent chance to make it out. And how is
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  Speaker 1: that possible in a city like Atlanta with all the history?
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  Speaker 1: Uh two for that to be possible. The flip side
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  Speaker 1: of that is, I know that our kids avoid the
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  Speaker 1: criminal justice system graduate high school, and if you look
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  Speaker 1: at all the data, the fastest way out of poverty
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  Speaker 1: is a high school diploma. It's not the end like
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  Speaker 1: you gotta go to college, you gotta get trade or
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  Speaker 1: go to work. There are a lot of things you
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  Speaker 1: need to do after high school. But all the data
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  Speaker 1: shows if we can keep kids in school and keep
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  Speaker 1: them learning, that's our best bet as a society. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm proud to be part of an organization that does
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  Speaker 1: exactly that. Our kids are exactly doing that. So how
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  Speaker 1: do we scale that to help more kids get to
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  Speaker 1: that five thousand and numbers you put out there about
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  Speaker 1: kids who live in low child well being communities throughout Atlanta.
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  Speaker 1: So that's what's exciting is that we have the results.
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  Speaker 1: We just gotta, you know, get more people involved to
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  Speaker 1: help more kids. How do you find where your funds
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  Speaker 1: come from what do your funds here? The government as
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  Speaker 1: as a government fund, the city funded. Where your funds,
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  Speaker 1: it's a mix. So we we work with a lot
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  Speaker 1: of the top corporations here at Cocacola Home Depot. We
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  Speaker 1: work with the Bernie Marcus Foundation here, there are at
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  Speaker 1: the Blank Foundation. So we have a lot of organizations
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  Speaker 1: that support us. Individuals are board UM and if you
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  Speaker 1: look at our model, it's very cost effective to serve
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  Speaker 1: a young person. We can serve a young person and
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  Speaker 1: produce these results for a month a year, and that's
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  Speaker 1: very low on our space. So you think about the
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  Speaker 1: kids were serving with a roughly four million dollar budget,
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  Speaker 1: that's a really effective way to create change. I think
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  Speaker 1: relationships is something anybody can do. Anybody could be a mentor. Right.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't require a brand new government program or a
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of millions of dollars. If everybody took on the challenge,
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  Speaker 1: that that's made it. Because if you ask people how
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  Speaker 1: do you get to where you are? I guarantee you
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  Speaker 1: most of them didn't do it on their own. If
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  Speaker 1: if everyone else could take on that challenge, just think
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  Speaker 1: about what kind of city we can have an Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: it's something we can scale, something we can all do
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  Speaker 1: and lean into. How do you reach them? Let me
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  Speaker 1: slide over to the volunteer manager, truth manager. That's I
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  Speaker 1: got the president to see you. I got the two
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  Speaker 1: key people man telling everybody that got the first of
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  Speaker 1: over trying to bring people in the help them manage
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  Speaker 1: this program. So you're a charge of the volunteer recruitment manager.
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  Speaker 1: What exactly is that? And once you answer that question,
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  Speaker 1: my next question is going to be how do you
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  Speaker 1: get people like me involved? Oh? Okay, Well it's so
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  Speaker 1: weird because that title I don't even really think it
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  Speaker 1: really thumbs up what I do. Power of nonprofit. You
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  Speaker 1: have a title, but you do everything else. Um, No,
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  Speaker 1: my job is too. I like to say, I'm I'm
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  Speaker 1: part of the street team. I like I said, I
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  Speaker 1: I know how great this program is. So I make
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  Speaker 1: sure no matter where I'm at, if I see a
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  Speaker 1: group of strangers that I think anybody could be a
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  Speaker 1: mental but just really being out there, um and looking
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  Speaker 1: for people who can step up and take this challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Going off to these companies that I know that has
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  Speaker 1: a culture of giving back in some type of way. Um.
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  Speaker 1: It's always known about your target market. It's not going
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  Speaker 1: to everywhere and say hey can be a mentor, because
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  Speaker 1: that everybody could be mentors, you know, but just really
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  Speaker 1: going out there. How I met you guys at Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the Brian Bank's premiere that day. Is just trying to
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  Speaker 1: always put myself in a space where, um, I know
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  Speaker 1: we have some key people who can help this organization
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  Speaker 1: out in some ways some shape or form. Like Qam said,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people know about it, but they don't
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  Speaker 1: know what we do. So try to find my ways
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  Speaker 1: to get on platforms like this when we can talk
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  Speaker 1: about the organization, talk about this platform. Um a lot
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  Speaker 1: of time for men. If you ask a guy who
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  Speaker 1: was your mentor, that would be like I didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a mentor. I did this. You're like, okay, well who
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  Speaker 1: helped you out? Oh my coach did, My deacon from
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  Speaker 1: my church he talked to me. So sometimes it's just
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  Speaker 1: pulling it out of you and um, yeah, we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: come back with more or moneyment conversation here with the president,
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  Speaker 1: CEO and the volunteer recruitment manager says she has many
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  Speaker 1: titles moneymaking conversations. Oh this is We're having a lot
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  Speaker 1: of fun on my show as usual, um my personality
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  Speaker 1: to just make people feel good about being a live
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  Speaker 1: moneymaking conversation that I have on the show today. The
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  Speaker 1: president and CEO of Big Brother Big Sister Foundation and
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  Speaker 1: volunteer recruitment manager a Man Qualm and Juliet there sitting
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  Speaker 1: right next to me, and so in between breaks and
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  Speaker 1: I being the nosy guy that I am, I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: how do you really get people involved? How do you
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  Speaker 1: really get people engaged? And then Kwalmi said, you know,
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  Speaker 1: uh January is uh Volunteer mart National Volunteer March. We
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of programs involved. And then Juliet and go,
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  Speaker 1: you know something, we need some panelists. You look like
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  Speaker 1: a panelist. And then it went from you know, we
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  Speaker 1: actually need a moderate. So you know, I went from
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  Speaker 1: you know, inviting people on my show just to talk
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  Speaker 1: about their organization to being panelists and now I'm gonna moderate.
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  Speaker 1: That's a lot of work involved that I'm gonna volunteer
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  Speaker 1: and commit to on this show. I'm gonna do it
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  Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, that's your job, talking your job tailers.
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  Speaker 1: Volunteer recruitment managure means you have to sit when you
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  Speaker 1: see people walking down the street. They could be it.
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  Speaker 1: They could be a chick for late excuse me after
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  Speaker 1: your order that that chicken, I need you to come
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  Speaker 1: over and volunteer for me. You could be at church
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  Speaker 1: and Julia to walk up to you and say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: after you make that tide, how need you come over
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  Speaker 1: and tie some time with me over here? So that's
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  Speaker 1: what you do. So I'm a firm example of how
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  Speaker 1: you recruit people. Tell me more about First of all,
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  Speaker 1: tell me more about the program national monk January mark,
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  Speaker 1: and then you can tell me what I'm gonna be
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  Speaker 1: potentially moriorary. So January is National mentory month. We got
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  Speaker 1: you after ACU bar right here. So and uh, Julia
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  Speaker 1: is really good at what she does exactly, so national
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  Speaker 1: Mentor month of January we're starting to playing for that. Now.
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  Speaker 1: It's a big push for us to get the word
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  Speaker 1: out about um just mentor if the whole country talking
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  Speaker 1: about mentoring again. For me, I believe it's something anybody
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  Speaker 1: can do who's ready to get back and we can
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  Speaker 1: really make this country a better place. So Juliet has
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  Speaker 1: some events planned. You may want to talk about the
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  Speaker 1: real mentor mentor event, but we're looking forward to January
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  Speaker 1: National Mentory Month. Yeah. Yeah, you know. My motto is
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  Speaker 1: that you miss a of the shots that you don't shoot,
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  Speaker 1: So I shoot every shot that I can at all times.
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  Speaker 1: Hey um, but yeah, so um real men Mentory. So
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  Speaker 1: this is the second event that we're gonna do. UM.
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  Speaker 1: We did that last year. We had about seventy guys
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  Speaker 1: in the Big Brothers African American men you know who
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  Speaker 1: came and said, Hey, I want to hear about this program.
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  Speaker 1: I want to hear how I can give back and
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  Speaker 1: my go um for January's double or triple that number.
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  Speaker 1: I want to have a large space. I want to
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  Speaker 1: have an open discussion with men, black, white, yellow, pink, whatever.
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  Speaker 1: I want to have the discussion of why it's important
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  Speaker 1: for you to give back to the next generation of boys.
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  Speaker 1: Um probably likes to say that if you're not giving
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  Speaker 1: back to somebody, you're not just doing yourself a disservice,
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  Speaker 1: but you're doing your community a disservice. And I think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time with men UM think about my
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  Speaker 1: coming to be a stepdad, am I coming in to
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  Speaker 1: do this and we just want you to come in
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  Speaker 1: and give really right and that commitment. But we can
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  Speaker 1: talk about that. We can talk about the commitments conversation later. UM,
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  Speaker 1: but I I just want to really get the word
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  Speaker 1: out because we have these amazing boys. When I first
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  Speaker 1: came to the organization, I was interviewing a lot of
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  Speaker 1: the kids, and a lot of these kids they just
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  Speaker 1: want opportunity. UM, six or fourteen years old. So we
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  Speaker 1: match you from six or fourteen years old. But like
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  Speaker 1: we said earlier, our goal is to make sure that
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  Speaker 1: every child this program graduates from high school. So when
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  Speaker 1: you're matched, you can be in the program to your
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  Speaker 1: eighteen years old. So as you're culminating out of this match,
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  Speaker 1: you're culminating out of high school. So UM, that's that's
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  Speaker 1: just a big push. I just want to have Let's
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  Speaker 1: have a conversation. Let's figure how we could how we
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  Speaker 1: together as a community, UM could reclaim back the boys
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  Speaker 1: of Atlanta and UM just make sure that they're all
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  Speaker 1: heading on a right path for success. Well you know
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  Speaker 1: the thing about it. Okay, I'm a member Omega Sci
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  Speaker 1: Fi Return. So when I hear and when out one
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  Speaker 1: of all mail fraternity service especial service community, what involvement
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  Speaker 1: are you guys suit potentially involvement? Oh, mal fraternities. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we we do a lot of work with with all
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  Speaker 1: the different fraternities and they do great work. UM And
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  Speaker 1: we've had recruiting events where we had Omega's, the Alpha's,
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  Speaker 1: the Kappa's come in and help recruit men. Many of
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  Speaker 1: those organizations also have mentoring organizations and mentoring programs already,
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  Speaker 1: so we provided guidance to them to help them do
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  Speaker 1: their their work better. So we look at all types
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  Speaker 1: of affinity groups to bring them in and it's really
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  Speaker 1: getting in front of the right folks and saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: this is what we're doing. How can we partner. Can
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  Speaker 1: we help you with your mentoring program? Can you help
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  Speaker 1: us recruit mentors um And it's worked really great, so
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  Speaker 1: we've had a lot of success. We just launched a
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  Speaker 1: partnership with the Mayor's office called a hundred Men to
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  Speaker 1: Mentor Challenge where the Mayor issued a hundred Men to
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  Speaker 1: Mentors Challenge. Uh So, Mayor Bottoms as a part of
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  Speaker 1: her My Brother's Keeper initiative, which is a big part
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  Speaker 1: of one Atlanta Equity making Atlanta a great city for everybody,
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  Speaker 1: has partnered with us to match a hundred boys on
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  Speaker 1: our waiting lists in the city of Atlanta, and that
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  Speaker 1: challenge went out. Over two hundred men have raised their
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  Speaker 1: hand and have come in and are now going through
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  Speaker 1: our process. So those are unique ways we can sing
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  Speaker 1: all that. So just to get to the meat and
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  Speaker 1: bones of what it would take to become a big
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  Speaker 1: brother or big sister for the folks in the room
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  Speaker 1: and who are listening, we you have to first agree
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  Speaker 1: to do one year. Right. We know if you come
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  Speaker 1: into a young kid's life for less than a year,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna do more damage. So that's that's the non negotiable.
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  Speaker 1: Can you do this for a year? We want you
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  Speaker 1: to do it longer than that. Most matches last three years.
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  Speaker 1: We've had matches last ten years. We've had matches open
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  Speaker 1: up Flip Burger on how mill um to go back
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  Speaker 1: to an entrepreneur peace um. And then we asked you
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  Speaker 1: for at least eight hours a month. Can you spend
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  Speaker 1: eight hours a month? I do it my little eight
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  Speaker 1: and I make the time to make it happen. And
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  Speaker 1: then we get to know you. We screen you, of course,
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  Speaker 1: want to make sure you're safer kids, and then we
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  Speaker 1: match you when a young person of your preference uh
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  Speaker 1: to make it happen and through that relationship magic. When
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  Speaker 1: you say, when you say you match, let's talk about that,
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  Speaker 1: and you use the word preference, talk to us. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: So if you've ever heard of match dot com or
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  Speaker 1: those kind of places, you know relationships are based on
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  Speaker 1: you know, preferences and what you like and what that
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  Speaker 1: person likes. And we use that same technology and thinking
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  Speaker 1: in our matches because we want the matches to last again.
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  Speaker 1: So you may want to work with a young person
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  Speaker 1: who's ten, who's in the entrepreneurship and maybe wants to
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  Speaker 1: get into this business at some point, so we would
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  Speaker 1: find that right match for you. We would just say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: here's this kid you know, and we'd also make sure
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  Speaker 1: that that young person lives near you, because we know
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  Speaker 1: that matters within fifteen miles or where you live. So
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  Speaker 1: we know we have kids in College Park, South full
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  Speaker 1: and different parts of the city that are waiting longer
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  Speaker 1: than other kids. But we use that preference and all
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  Speaker 1: that to make the match. And then we ask you
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  Speaker 1: to support you with a coach, so not only are
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  Speaker 1: you matched, you have someone who walk alongside you in
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  Speaker 1: that match to make sure you're successful, so you're not
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  Speaker 1: learning on the fly situations come up all the time
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  Speaker 1: every day. You know, you might want to call into
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  Speaker 1: us and say, hey, you know, I'm dealing with the situation.
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  Speaker 1: What do you think? Or hey, I need some tickets
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  Speaker 1: to the Hawks game? Can you make it happen? That's
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  Speaker 1: what we provide, that the Hawks gonna be on fire.
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  Speaker 1: This ship. Well, let's talk about this, man, d All,
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  Speaker 1: you know, but that's it. But that's how you get everything. Like.
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  Speaker 1: I love the fact that you understand why people will
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  Speaker 1: for the kid who was in the athletic said you
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  Speaker 1: ain't got time for that? You want to you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's just making sure that there's a like minded relationship.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a long term relationship. Again, you know, we've
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  Speaker 1: talked about we talked about bars a lot. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: back to the girls programs. I want to get that
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  Speaker 1: out because I have a twenty two year old daughter
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  Speaker 1: who I love to day. I think she's not part
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  Speaker 1: of this program, but I know how it responsible. My
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  Speaker 1: wife and I role has been in her life and
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  Speaker 1: getting her to where she's at right now, and she's
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  Speaker 1: still growing. The programs are available for these young young ladies.
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  Speaker 1: Know it's the same age group, same age group. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so the programs are pretty open like UM for both
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  Speaker 1: boys and girls. We have different activities for it. We
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  Speaker 1: have Saturday activities, like Lamy said, because of a lot
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  Speaker 1: of our employer partners. We give a lot of tickets.
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  Speaker 1: If it's we have color purple last year, if it's
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  Speaker 1: Medieval Times, if it's a game. We The great thing
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  Speaker 1: about your mass support specialists that they know you so
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  Speaker 1: whatever you are your match is into. She'll call you.
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  Speaker 1: He'll call you and be like, hey, Mike, I know
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  Speaker 1: that you and um Jamal like football. We have we
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  Speaker 1: Arthur Blank donated thirty tickets and I know that you
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  Speaker 1: and your match been doing so great. I want to
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  Speaker 1: give you guys these tickets. Are you interested in going so? Um,
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: no matter what you're into, no matter what kind of
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  Speaker 1: questions that you may have, our master supportspecialists are there
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  Speaker 1: UM to help you out throughout the process. Okay, she said.
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  Speaker 1: myself a celebrity. I I am well known. So what
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  Speaker 1: This is a growing entertainment base has always been known
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  Speaker 1: how are you recruiting those? Yeah, and we've you know,
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  Speaker 1: really done well with different celebrities around town. We just
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  Speaker 1: had our annual picnic where we had hundreds of biggs
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